What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Oyeyemi, Helen

ISBN 10: 1447299396 / ISBN 13: 9781447299394

Published by Picador, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447299396
• ISBN 13: 9781447299394
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1753698842.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 12068187
• Signed: 7/28/2025 10:34:02 AM
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Synopsis

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi''s ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.

The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi''s Day.

It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

About the Author

HELEN OYEYEMI is the author of five novels, most recently Boy, Snow, Bird, which was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013, she was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. The author lives in Prague.